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Friday, June 12, 2009

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

Probably my most favorite book of all time, I still remember reading this book for the first time as a kid. I absolutely love all the puns and play on words that Juster uses. The ideas just keep coming -- from a marketplace that sells letters to a conductor who conducts the colors of the dawn, from the Amazing DYNN that makes a lot of noise to the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason. Tock is an endearing dog -- sort of like the scarecrow in Oz -- and I love how Milo realizes that there are just too many interesting things to see and do in this world to waste time wasting time.

The Phantom Tollbooth
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